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CURTAIN RING.

(No Model.)

No. 404,638. Patented June 4, 18-89.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN LINES, OF WVATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE SCOVILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CURTAIN-RING.-

SPECIFIGA'IION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,638,. dated June 4, 1889.

Serial No. 303,383. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern..-

Be itknown that I, JOHN LINES, of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut,have invented a new Improvement in Curtain-Rings; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,

and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure l, a perspective View of the ring complete; Fig. 2, the blank of sheet metal from which the tube is formed; Fig. 3, a transverse section through the blank when brought to tubular shape; Fig. 4, a central section in the plane of the ring, showing the ends as overlapping; Fig. 5, the eye detached, as prepared for introduction; Fig. 6, a longitudinal section through the overlapping ends, enlarged, and showing the perforations for the attachment of the eye; Fig. 7, a transverse section through the ring at the perforations', showing the eye introduced; Fig. 8, the same transverse section as Fig. 7, showing the ends of the eye struck down upon the inside.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of curtain-rings which are made from a metal tube, in order that the ring may be as light as convenientlymay be, and in which the eye is applied to the ring as a convenient means for attaching the curtain or drapery, the object beinga simple and strong connection of the two ends of the tube, which are brought together in the formation of the ring, and employ the eye itself as the means for securing the two ends together; and the invention consists in the construction as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claim.

A represents the ring, and B the eye. The ring is made from metal tubing, the tube being formed from a blank of sheet metal, in length little greater than the circumference of the ring, and of a width so that when brought into tubular shape, as seen in Fig. 3, the edges will substantially meet upon the inside. ring shape, one end of the tube entering the other end, as seen in Fig. 4. The eye B is made from a piece of wire bent into ring shape, the two ends a a projecting radially therefrom, as seen in Fig. 5.

This tubular blank is then bent into Through the outside thicknesses of the overlapping ends of the ring a perforation Z) is made, as seen in Fig. 6. This perforation corresponds in size to the combined two ends a of the eye B. Through the inner thick- 'nesses a hole (Z is made directly over the outer perforation b, but preferably somewhat larger. The two ends a a of the ring are set through the perforation b, as seen in Fig. 7, the ends being of a length to project into the inside of the tube, and then, by an instrument through the opening at on the inside, the two ends are struck down, as seen in Fig. 8, upon the inside of the overlapping portions of the tube, and the eye itself, taking a bearing upon the outside, clamps the said overlapping parts firmly to the eye, and the eye serves as a rivet by which the two parts are secured together. The connection is firm, strong, and cheap. The ring may be made of a highlyfinished and ornamental character, if desirable, and, while very cheap in its construction, may possess the appearance of an expensive ring.

WVhile preferring to make the ring from a strip of sheet metal, as I have described, the tube from which the ring is made may be formed in any of the known means for making such a tube. I therefore do not wish to be understood as limiting the invention to the particular means described for forming the tube from which the ring is made.

I claim- The herein-described curtain-ring, consisting of a tube bent into ring shape, one end of the tube inserted into the other end to complete the ring, the overlapping ends pierced from the outside, combined with an eye made from wire bent into ring shape with radially-projecting ends, the said projecting ends introduced through the said perforation in the overlapping ends of the tube and struck down upon the inside as a means for securing the eye to the ring, and also serving to secure the two ends of the ring together, substantially as described.

JOHN LINES. 

